--- title: Restaurants: Why New Orleans Bounced Back description: Why New Orleans bounces back, getting real-time cancer treatment data from a tumor, starting young to fight rape culture and more. canonical: https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-05T16:01:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:09.515Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why New Orleans Bounced Back og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why New Orleans Bounced Back twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why New Orleans Bounced Back by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 5, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 5, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**A decade after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has harnessed the “edgy creativity that comes from the shared aftertaste of danger.”**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/books/review/walker-percys-theory-of-hurricanes.html) By Walter Isaacson in the New York Times **2\.** [**Could a tumor send real-time progress reports on cancer treatment?**](http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/real-time-data-for-cancer-therapy-0804) By Chris Berdick in MIT News **3\.** [**Where should we start fighting campus sexual assault? Let’s try high school.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campus-rape-high-schools%5F55b26e28e4b0a13f9d185c4a) By Tyler Kingkade and Rebecca Klein in the Huffington Post **4\.** [**To expedite innovation, give away your code.**](http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/04/to-speed-up-innovation-give-away-your-code/) By Gus Robertson in TechCrunch **5\.** [**Simply defending against hackers isn’t working. Maybe U.S. businesses should go on offense.**](http://www.itworld.com/article/2956115/counterterrorism-expert-says-its-time-to-give-companies-offensive-cybercapabilities.html) By Grant Gross in IT World  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/"},"headline":"Why New Orleans Bounced Back","datePublished":"2015-08-05T16:01:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:09.515Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/","keywords":["Innovation","Cancer","new orleans","Rape Culture","cyber security"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3985671/new-orleans-revival/","name":"Why New Orleans Bounced Back"}}]}] ```